Kubernetes and Microservices powering modern Consumer Banking

Traditional Banking backends are monolithic, slow to change and almost impossible to maintain. In today's world our consumers expect new features and exceptional user experience that's always improving. One way this can be achieved is by designing systems that are modular, agile, extensible, and sustainable. Using micro-services and kubernetes, we can fulfill these promises.

In this meetup, we will explore the shortcomings of traditional consumer banking systems and how using micro-services and kubernetes can improve that. We will discuss real-world use cases of kubernetes in banking. Finally, we will showcase a demo application that was inspired by Monzo.

Learning Objectives - Upon competing the workshop attendees should learn the following:

• What is missing from banking today
• Why kubernetes for financial services
• Break an application down to a set of micro-services
• Create and manage a Kubernetes cluster on IBM Cloud
• Deploy to a Kubernetes cluster on IBM Cloud
• Deploy to IBM Cloud

Pre-requisites
Basic understanding of kubernetes is suggested.
https://medium.com/containermind/a-beginners-guide-to-kubernetes-7e8ca56420b6

Speakers

Mofizur Rahman
Mofizur Rahman is a Developer Advocate at IBM. His area of interests include container orchestration, micro services and blockchain. His favorite programming language these days is Go. He also tinkers with Node, Python and Java. He is also learning and teaching in the Go, Kubernetes and Hyperledger Fabric community. He is a strong believer of the power open source and importance of giving back to the community. He is a self proclaimed sticker collecting addict and has collected several box full of stickers with no signs of stopping. He dabbles in photography sometimes. He writes tech blogs at NYCDEV medium page which can be found on https://medium.com/@moficodes .

Grant Steinfeld
Grant is a Developer Advocate at IBM focused on Blockchain, NodeJS. An accomplished and innovative senior Software Architect and Engineer, he is known for his ability to deliver client-focused solutions across Fortune 100 enterprises and startups ventures. A problem solver and team mentor, he interfaces with senior management and product teams to translate business requirements and challenges into project plans and real solutions.

Remko De Knikker
Remko is a senior software engineer for Watson Financial Services, have recently released IBM Open Banking Platform (OBP). In the last year he has worked with major banks in the UK on a TPP for PISP and AISP implementation of the PSD2 UK specs, using a Kubernetes and Microservices based architecture in a strongly Agile team. Previously, he was a developer advocate and senior software engineer at Microsoft, Yale University Bioinformatics, Infor, Relx, HPE, and Atos/ABNAmro.